Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change

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33 minutes ago, tacoman25 said:

China has a major nuclear initiative in action. They have dozens of new nuclear power plants currently being built while the U.S. has none.

That being said, there is a big push from the current administration to build more (primarily to meet rapidly growing datacenter demand due to the AI frenzy), but previous projects have been very slow to get underway.

Yes, China's nuclear generation is increasing rapidly. They are also adding large amounts of hydro and wind. However their biggest source of their new non-fossil power this year is solar. The solar they are installing this year is roughly equivalent to the entire US nuclear fleet.